Blackhide Wrastler

Mercenary Blindwater Congregation Gatorman Heavy Warbeast

Model stats and abilities

Model Statistics

Base size = 50mm		SPD	MAT	DEF	ARM	FURY	THR
Health = 29
FA = 4
Cost = 13		5	7	12	19	4	8
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Model Advantages and Abilities

Trample Power Attack	This model can make a trample power attack. No errata for Trample Power Attack (Create)
Slam Power Attack	This model can make slam power attacks. No errata for Slam Power Attack (Create)
Headbutt Power Attack	This model can make Headbutt power attacks. No errata for Headbutt Power Attack (Create)
Gladiator	This model gains +2 on power attack damage rolls and on power attack collateral damage rolls. No errata for Gladiator (Create)
Amphibious	This model treats shallow water as open terrain while advancing. While completely in shallow water, this model gains concealment and does not block line of sight. Concealment A model with concealment gains +2 DEF against ranged and arcane attack rolls. No benefit against Spray attacks. No errata for Concealment (Create) No errata for Amphibious (Create)
Man-Eater	This model can charge living warrior models without being forced. No errata for Man-Eater (Create)
Rise	Models in this model's unit that are knocked down at the beginning of your Maintenance Phase stand up. No errata for Rise (Create)
Snacking	When this model boxes a living model with a melee attack, it can choose to remove the boxed model from play. When it does, this model can remove d3 damage points. No errata for Snacking (Create)

Weapons

Tusks
	RNG	ROF	AOE	POW	LOCATION
	2	-	-	16	-

Claw
	RNG	ROF	AOE	POW	LOCATION
	1	-	-	17	X2
Throw Power Attack	This weapon can be used to make Throw power attacks. A warjack cannot use this weapon to make a Throw Power attack if this weapon is crippled. No errata for Throw Power Attack (Create)
Beat Back	Immediately after a basic atack with this weapon is resolved during the models Combat Action: The enemy model hit can be pushed 1 inch directly away from the attacking model. After the enemy model is pushed, the attacking model can advance up to 1 inch directly toward it. You cannot move toward a model that is no longer on the table. When a movement occurs after a damage is resolved, and resolution of the damage destroys or removes a model from the table, then it is impossible to move toward that destroyed/removed model.   Errata-Follow Up (2023-08-23) Question: What is the timing of follow up, and do you still move if a slammed model is destroyed? Answer: 1. Slam attack 2. Damage to target and collateral damage. 3. If slammed model is still on the table, Follow Up movement. Explanation: The old ruling will still apply here. The rationale is the “slam” and “Slammed” descriptions include the target taking a damage roll caused by the action. Therefore the damage roll is part and parcel with resolving the “slam”. For the it was that you can not follow up to a model that has been destroyed as there is no longer a model on the board to follow up to. Infernal Ruling: elswickchuck (Infernal) - PP Community forum
Chain Attack:Grab & Smash	Category:Chain Attack:Grab & Smash No errata for Chain Attack:Grab & Smash (Create)

Warbeast Rules

Warbeast Rules

• A warbeast is
  • an Independent Model.
  • a Cohort model.

Warbeast Animus

  Errata-Animus (2023-07-11)

	Question: Are Animi considered spells for all rules that affect spells (or that trigger when a spell is cast?
	Answer: An Animus that is cast is a spell for other effects.
	Explanation:
	Infernal Ruling: DarkLegacy Infernal - PP Community forum

Animus

Indomitable	Cost	RNG	AOE	POW	DUR	OFF
	1	Self	-	-	Rnd	No
The spellcaster gains Unyielding. Unyielding: This model gains +2 ARM against melee damage rolls. No errata for Unyielding (Create)
No errata for Indomitable (Create)

Errata

No Errata specifically for this model.

Videos

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LEGACY--------

Massive gators of voracious appetite, blackhide wrastlers easily drag the mightiest foes down to be shredded in a flurry of teeth and claws. Moreover, a bokor can subjugate and ritually alter a blackhide to create an even darker threat: a blind walker. The beast becomes a necromantic conduit—a mindless horror that lives only to obey its master’s commands.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Warbeast
• Template:Amphibious
• Template:Man Eater
• Template:Rise
• Template:Snacking

Weapons

Bite
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				5				17
Claw (x2)
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				2				14
Template:Open Fist

Animus

{{Category: Template:Rage }}[[Category: Template:Rage ]]

Theme Forces

• Minion
  • Template:Blindwater
  • Template:Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Template:Disciples of Agony. Blackhide Wrastler becomes a Skorne warbeast in this theme.
  • If taken by a Gatorman Lesser Warlock (ie Wrong Eye or Underchief Mire), it can be in dozens of theme forces. Omitted here for brevity.

Thoughts on Blackhide Wrastler

Blackhide Wrastler in a nutshell

A solid beat stick with a strong STR buff. There's a reason it's almost always the first choice Gatorman warbeast. Most of what can be said of the Dire Troll Mauler can be said of the Wrastler with a few minimal thematic rules thrown in for good measure.

Rise is an odd hang over rule from its MK2 days when the Wrastler used to be a Luchador wrestler focused on power attacks and knocking people over (yes really) often your opponent won’t be kind enough to keep it breathing after it’s knocked over or you will use Captain Crawtooth to prevent it being knocked down in the first place.

Combos & Synergies

• Any other minion warbeast - Rage is a great animus.
• Rage with Calaban's Parasite is absurd.
• Rage with Rask's Fury is just as absurd.
• Rage with Maelok’s Mortality is, you guessed it absurd.
• Boomhowler3 can grant him Bloodthirst which stacks nicely with Man Eater.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• It's your best force multiplier thanks to Rage, but it also means losing it will see your overall threat diminish.
• At armor 19, def 12 and only 29 boxes it can still go down in a single round of combat if a heavy gets the charge against it.
• Loses some effectiveness vs non living targets

Tricks & Tips

• To get the most distance, charge a warrior model near your real beast/jack target for free - and punch it with one of the claws. Then spend everything on bite attacks on your real target.
• Just because you can plop Rage onto another model doesn't mean you should- more often than not the Wrastler itself is still the best platform for Rage, it and the Dracodile being the Congregation's best potential sources for armor-cracking damage. Spend Rage capitalizing on your strengths instead of trying to shore up weaknesses.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Forces of Hordes: Minions (2010)